The ground is trembling, and the horses are galloping.

Although it was only a few dozen horses, it still had the heroism of a blood-stained battlefield.

The iron whip in his hand swung diagonally from the air with a momentum, and struck the opponent's shoulder with the knife in his hand first, knocking him off the horse.

Life and death were only in a split second, and he held his breath when he charged, and when he defeated his opponent, he restarted his violent breath with a faint smell of rust. The heavy hooves of his companion behind him stepped on the chest of the fallen rider, and a clear sound of bone cracking reached Han Lian's ears with a miserable neigh.

"The third!" Han Lian immediately let out a wild roar, making the enemy riders who surrounded him frightened.

Holding the iron whip tightly in both hands, Han Lian's eagle-like eyes were once again focused on an enemy soldier. As soon as he clamped his crotch and got off the horse's belly, he immediately rushed straight away like an arrow. When he dismounted, Han Lian was just a cripple who couldn't grow well after his leg bone was broken, but when he stepped on horseback, he became a first-class cavalryman in the army.

The Jiaozhi cavalry, which had just been surrounded, was scattered like ducks in Han Lian's fierce ghost-like charge. Han Lian and his companions bit the person they were staring at at the beginning, like wolves chasing hares in the wasteland, alternating in pursuit, cooperating with each other to catch the prey that was also not slow.

Relying on the advantage of the height and long legs of the Hexi horse under the crotch, Han Lian gradually chased after the prey from behind. In the frightened eyes of the fleeing enemy when he turned back, he whipped down again, and smashed it to pieces with his helmet and skull. The enemy's worst panic froze on the eyeball, and was squeezed out of the eye socket with a violent force.

"The fourth!" Han Lian turned around and yelled, "Liu San, win the two of you." ”

But at the same time, a little farther away, another roar came: "The third! Then the roar turned into a hearty laugh, "Palace, you still only have one more." ”

Han Lian scolded, turned the horse's head, and was about to attack back again.

"Palace, Third Brother Liu, you raise your noble hands and leave a few for us." A shout sounded in the distance, "You are all safe enough to enter the third class courtyard, and we also want to get a general, a general's salary to support our families." ”

"Something that doesn't make a difference! How can there be a reason to go up to the mountain to hunt, and then sell some strength, just grab it! ”

Han Lian turned around and roared again. When he returned to the army to become a scout, he had already been promoted by Han Gang to a palace attendant who did not enter the ranks. With his strength these days, as long as he forces the Jiaozhi army to retreat, he can steadily enter the ranks of officials. But if he commanded a group of cavalry, if he killed fewer enemies than the people below, wouldn't he be ashamed, and he would not give up half a cent.

Originally, it was a joke, but when I thought of the post-war reward, everyone was up with their hearts and rushed to kill it.

In Han Lian's opinion, the Cochin cavalry he faced today was much smarter than yesterday, at least they would not be foolishly attacking the arrow array, but began to do what they should do.

However, the Jiaozhi cavalry scattered in the wilderness around Quy Nhon Pu, Han Lian counted all the way, and there were only fifty or sixty horsemen. It can be seen that yesterday's defeat and the back and forth still had a great impact on the Cochin cavalry, so that most of the surviving enemy cavalry could not go into battle for a while.

Despite yesterday's defeat, the fighting spirit of the returning Jiaozhi cavalry still maintains a certain level. It's just that the fighting spirit can't be directly converted into combat power, and their equestrianism is a little stronger than a joke, and it's basically still a joke. A group of riders who had fought with the party cavalry on the Kansai Formation, wielding heavy iron whips, unceremoniously reaped the results of the battle.

In the face of the warriors, tactics and war horses of the Song army, which are far stronger than the cavalry, no matter how desperate they are, they are still only adding glory to the Song people. This group of Jiaozhi cavalry finally couldn't hold on, gave up the surveillance of Quy Nhon Pu, and retreated back.

Seeing the rest of the Cochin cavalry fleeing away, Han Lian jumped off the back of the Hexi Liangju under him and rode on a pony that was about to be smaller in size. Saving horsepower is always a matter of attention. Although the Hexi horses only rode when they received the enemy, a third of the war horses moved from Jingnan to Guangxi, and they fell ill because of the water and soil, but the people were better.

The expulsion of the opposing scouts came to an end, and the clash between the cavalry ended in the victory of the Song army. Leaving a team to continue sweeping the wilderness around Quy Nhon Pu, Han Lian returned to the camp with the results of the battle.

In just one day, the Song army had built a poorly shaped camp with Quy Nhon Pu as the core. However, although it is simple, it is also compared with the camp set up by the Western Army when it marched and fought, and everything inside and outside is still arranged in accordance with the standard camp method, to protect the safety of the garrison in the camp, the defense is not bad, and it is still being built.

When Han Lian was about to enter the camp gate, he saw a group of people driving sixty or seventy horses with heavy burdens into the camp.

The grain and grass should have been transferred from Kunlun Pass, "Where did the horses come from?" Han Lian asked.

The petty official who escorted the grain and grass hurriedly replied, "It was all collected by Zhao Zhizhou overnight and sent to Kunlun Guan." ”

Han Lian looked at these pack horses, and was very happy in his heart, it was luck that so many horses could be collected in Penn City. Although the tallest of the shoulders was only a little over four feet, Han Lian didn't expect to be able to ride these horses into battle, as long as they could be used as foot strength for patrolling. When it's time to really fight, just change horses.

Han Gang also received the news that Penn City had collected a batch of horses as pack horses to transport grain and grass. When he heard about it, he hurried out of the camp. These horses are all short and sturdy, and their appearance is very different from the Hexi horses and Qingtang horses that Han Gang is used to.

"I can't imagine that there are still horses in Guangxi?" No, Han Gang immediately reacted: "It's all Dian horses, right?" He asked Su Ziyuan.

"That's right. Most of the horses in Guangxi are 'Dianchi horses', and now they are known as Dali horses. ”

Yunnan horse, famous for the ancient tea horse road in later generations, is good at walking mountain roads, has endurance, and is resistant to rough feeding. Han Gang looked at the short physique of these horses, and as war horses, they were definitely unqualified. However, it is a good breed of horses that can be used to transport goods in the mountains.

"Put half of it back and continue to transfer grain and grass, and leave the rest for the cavalry to replace, and it won't be able to fight here for a few days." Han Gang circled around these Dian horses a few times, these horses were surrounded by a group of strangers, they were not frightened at all, they stood very docilely, so that Han Gang and Li Xin, who knew horses, nodded with satisfaction, "In the future, if you enter Jiaozhi, if you save more Yunnan horses to transport grain, it will be convenient." ”

"The envoy is right."

Han Gang pointed to the south: "The war horses of the Jiaozhi people seem to be also Dian horses?" ”

Su Ziyuan didn't know much about this matter, "Horses are not tolerant to humidity and heat, and the climate of Jiaozhi can't raise horses, most of them are from Dali." ”

He Yi cautiously interjected beside him, "Whether it is Jiaozhi or Guangyuan, the horses used in the army are all sold from Dali. It's just that the road is dangerous, and the price is expensive, so the number of war horses of the two families is very small. ”

"I see." Li Xin nodded.

Riding a war horse, from physique, to endurance, to temperament, each must be assessed. Among the ten horses, there are almost one or two that can be used as war horses. So the price of a war horse is often ten times that of an ordinary horse. In yesterday's battle, the mounts of the Cochin cavalry lost about 100 horses with casualties. This is nearly 10,000 yuan of money gone, and when Li Changjie learns about it, I'm afraid he will cry.

"Which way is the horse seller on this side of Quang Nam West Road?" Han Gang turned his head and asked Su Ziyuan again.

"Yongzhou and Yizhou have roads leading to Dali, but they have to pass through Ziqi and Luodian respectively. There is no direct road to Dali. Su Ziyuan said, "Sichuanzhong can pass Dali, but Sichuan's own horses, so it is rare." ”

"Self-defeating? Luo Dian? Han Gang is very unfamiliar with these two place names.

"It is the barbarian tribe of the two western neighbors of Dali. Luodian is in the south of Kuizhou Road, northwest of Guangxi. Its country has been passed down for a long time, it is said that when Zhuge Wuhou conquered the Southern Barbarians, he was crowned the king of Luodian, and it has been passed down for dozens of generations. Ziqi is in the south of Luodian, traces the right river and goes up to Hengshanzhai, and then goes northwest for thirteen journeys to its border; Since Xiangzhou traces up the Duni River, you can also reach Ziqi. ”

Listening to Su Ziyuan's explanation, Han Gang was almost a point. Dali is Yunnan, adjacent to Dali in the west, which is on the east side of Yunnan. Needless to say, it should be a tribe in the mountainous area of eastern Yunnan, the so-called Duni River, since it joins the Pearl River in Xiangzhou, it can basically be determined that it is the Nanpan River in later generations, and its upstream is also in Yunnan. As for Luodian, Su Ziyuan said earlier that its place is north of Ziqi, that is, eastern Yunnan, which should be southwest of Guizhou, roughly in Anshun City.

However, comparing geography with ancient and modern times only proves that Han Gang's memory is not bad. The only thing that is certain is that the military horses in the south have fallen now.

"There is no horse market in Guangxi now?"

"Nope!" Su Ziyuan shook his head, and his expression suddenly became sad again, "Jia Yan had the intention of opening up a horse market in the old days and sent people to Hengshanzhai to investigate. After everything was ready, he went to the court, but unfortunately the Jiaozhi thief army attacked......"

Han Gang understood now, no wonder Su Ziyuan was so clear about the horse matter, it turned out that Su Ziyuan had been prepared for a long time.

Han Gang sighed, "Let's put these things aside." Zhilu said that Li Changjie couldn't get many horses, so he put his mind at ease, "In the future, there will be time to find Dian horses to supplement the needs of the army." ”

After praising Han Lian and hanging the captured head in a conspicuous place in the camp, in the afternoon, a ranger rushed back from outside the camp with the latest military information, and Han Gang finally had to face the leader of the invaders.

From Yongzhou to Quy Nhon Pu, the Jiaozhi army, which had walked for more than half a day, was closely connected between the front army and the rear army, and there were thousand-man teams on the flanks to prevent ambushes and sneak attacks, and there were no flaws that could be used for a while.

"Li Changjie can be regarded as a famous general." Han Gang stood on a slightly higher hill outside the camp gate and looked into the distance, "Although it is cochineous." ”

"It only takes 2,000 soldiers and horses to take the main formation." Li Xin threw aside the golden-filled soldier and said unconvinced.

The so-called flaw can't be found just because of the lack of troops, if you have enough military strength in your hand, you can directly crush it, or force out the flaw in a tentative attack, but Han Gang only has eight hundred in his hand.

Jiaozhi arrived outside Quy Nhon one after another, and set up camp five miles away from Hangang's camp.

Seeing that the twilight was deepening, the camp of the Cochin Army finally began to take shape. The tents were neat and orderly, but the periphery didn't look very strong, Li Xin asked Han Gang, "Do you want a night attack?" ”